A 20-year-old Wisconsin man accused of attacking the mayor of Milwaukee with a metal pipe has been arrested, police said Sunday.
The off-duty firefighters who rushed into a burning SUV and cut a 4-year-old boy out of the seatbelt saved his life, the boy's doctor said during a press conference Tuesday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Police in Milwaukee are working to track down a serial killer linked to at least seven unsolved homicides dating back more than two decades, authorities said.
The Northwest braced for blizzards Friday night while cities from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Boston, Massachusetts, were cleaning up after a major storm delayed air travel and created havoc on the ground.
As the recession leaves more retail casualties in its wake, rising store bankruptcies and mall closures could have devastating economic consequences.
After being hidden for more than a year by his mother, the child is finally located by police but apparently in poor health
Winfrey's mother claims a Milwaukee store shouldn't have extended credit to her
"I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty but leading them or driving them out of it."
Milwaukee police say four people have died in a shooting outside a house party
On the question of whether recent immigrants assimilate as quickly as previous waves, many Americans exhibit short fuses -- and even shorter memories.
A 20-year-old Wisconsin man accused of attacking the mayor of Milwaukee with a metal pipe has been arrested, police said Sunday.
The off-duty firefighters who rushed into a burning SUV and cut a 4-year-old boy out of the seatbelt saved his life, the boy's doctor said during a press conference Tuesday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Police in Milwaukee are working to track down a serial killer linked to at least seven unsolved homicides dating back more than two decades, authorities said.
The Northwest braced for blizzards Friday night while cities from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Boston, Massachusetts, were cleaning up after a major storm delayed air travel and created havoc on the ground.
As the recession leaves more retail casualties in its wake, rising store bankruptcies and mall closures could have devastating economic consequences.
After being hidden for more than a year by his mother, the child is finally located by police but apparently in poor health
Winfrey's mother claims a Milwaukee store shouldn't have extended credit to her
"I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty but leading them or driving them out of it."
Milwaukee police say four people have died in a shooting outside a house party
On the question of whether recent immigrants assimilate as quickly as previous waves, many Americans exhibit short fuses -- and even shorter memories.
Researchers at Marquette University say they have developed a first-of-its kind computer program that can measure bite characteristics
OK, I've learned to accept it that the Dodgers left Brooklyn and the Colts left Baltimore and NASCAR left Rockingham. And I even finally bore up to the reality that Brad actually left Jennifer. But, I'm sorry, I simply can't take it if bowling leaves Milwaukee.
When the logo for Women's Professional Soccer -- the new top-flight league starting in 2009 -- was unveiled this week, the player silhouette in the middle was unmistakable.
PROTAGONISTS: Tom Crean, Rick Pitino, Reece Gaines, Francisco Garcia, Dameon Mason, Jerry Smith
Tim Cigelske was a baggage handler for a major airline in Milwaukee from 2005 to 2007.
A couple weeks ago, my editor called with an idea, simple yet beguiling: a baseball road trip through the Midwest in the heat of August. The plan: Six teams in four days in three cities, with an eye toward the NL Central race. Go forth and explore baseball country, the editor said, and then he used a bunch of words that East Coasters like to invoke when talking about the Midwest, like "Americana" and "heartland" and "cheese curds." I told him I would do my best.
Please, take me with you to New York. -- Randy, Milwaukee, Wi.
The Rise of the Silver Swimmer. -- Brian, Milwaukee, Wi.
This Where Are They Now feature and others like it can be found in the July 2nd issue of Sports Illustrated.
The hidden ball trick gone horribly wrong. -- Brian, Milwaukee, Wi.
I. Youk and Lowell: Almost a third of the way through the 2007 campaign, the Red Sox are still waiting for a host of key cogs to kickstart their season. First and foremost, Manny Ramirez looks abnormally normal at the plate with a .269 batting average. Coco Crisp still can't hit a lick -- an 0-for-16 slump has dropped his average to .229. And none of Boston's three big offseason additions -- Daisuke Matsuzaka, J.D. Drew or Julio Lugo -- have lived up to the billing.
Commissioner Bud Selig may be the public face of Major League Baseball, but Bob DuPuy is the man behind the scenes getting things done. As president and COO, DuPuy, 60, who joined the league in 199...
The beer-and-brats capital of the United States is fast becoming the home of the long ball as well, thanks to Prince Fielder and shortstop J.J. Hardy. At week's end the Brewers led the majors in home runs with 58, and Hardy (14) and Fielder (12) ranked one-two in the National League. (Braves third baseman Chipper Jones also had 12.) When Milwaukee third baseman Craig Counsell looks at the list of NL leaders, he shakes his head and says, "O.K., Prince, I can see that one; he's supposed to hit bombs. But J.J.? Anyone who told you they expected this is crazy."
There's a little parlor game sweeping baseball, particularly now that Milwaukee, now playing the varsity portion of its schedule, has dropped three of its past four games after a 24-10 start. The game is to guess, Are the Brewers for real? Most teams that play .700 baseball for the first 34 games, as Milwaukee did, would be exempt from such talk, but we're talking about a franchise that clinched its last winning season with Robin Yount and Paul Molitor in the lineup, which hasn't played a playoff game in a quarter of a century, which hasn't put together back-to-back winning months in six years, features barley in its logo and a pack of running sausages that may be the most nationally recognizable players on the team.
1. 2006 underachievers: Prior to the 2006 campaign, two middle America cities were abuzz with optimism. Both Cleveland and Milwaukee boasted young, exciting teams that were coming off encouraging seasons in '05. Hopes and dreams quickly came crashing down, though, as both teams vastly underachieved and finishing below .500.
It seems that the career of former No. 1 draft pick Josh Hamilton is finally starting to take off this year. Do you think he can sustain his early production (.295 batting average, five home runs)? And, if so, would he be eligible for the NL Rookie of the Year and the Comeback Player of the Year award? -- Steve Harrison, Charlotte, N.C.
1. Baseball officials have moved this week's Indians-Angels series from frigid Cleveland to Milwaukee's retractable-roof stadium. Thanks a lot, MLB. Just when I'd gotten used to Milwaukee being a National League city, you pull this.
Also in this column: • Poor scheduling by MLB • Sheffield's new book • More news and notes
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It's not hard to notice a theme to the NBA's version of March Madness, one that sees even the best of its players "pacing" (read: not showing up) for entire quarters at a time as the season drones on and a nation's eyes focuses on Kansas and Ohio State. Luckily for you, dear reader, my tuner doesn't pick up CBS (seriously), I have no idea why Boston and Milwaukee aren't playing their starters, and One Shining Moment sounds like the official name of the #42 entrée (scallops and some sort of lobster sauce, heavenly) at my local Chinese eatery.
It's a long season, we wholly submit, and that's usually enough justification for the players who play the game and the media who cover it to lose their collective focus and concentrate on the flavors of the month that usually turn up in February, March and April. If that means scribes end up picking the team that finished with the best record down the stretch to win it all, fine -- nobody gets hurt with a semi-educated guess. But when deserving players are passed over for well-earned hardware, it's time to raise some hackles.
Jenn, what did you think of Wisconsin? Would you admit that us Badgers party way better than you Seminoles? And where is your next stop on the Road Trip excursion? -- Michael, Madison, Wisc.
In the NBA, the playoffs are the holy grail. Jobs are dangled based on whether a coach can guide his team into the postseason and whether a general manager has acquired the right talent to guarantee an owner at least two home playoff date. Failure to do so (repeatedly) usually results in firings and a major roster overhaul.
Last week's column about fans who keep attending games of terrible teams brought e-mail from readers all over the country who took offense at my suggestion that Cubs fans have had to suffer through the most hopeless seasons.
Time to dig deep into the NHL mailbag. But first, this reminder to the passionate fans of Nashville: My column on Monday was not about me advocating relocation by the Preds. It was an examination of the possibility that owner Craig Leipold might consider relocating if he fails in his efforts to bring in local ownership and find a way to reverse the declining interest in the team from the local business sector. So ease up on the name-calling. My wife reads your e-mails and even she's starting to think I'm a jerk.
The most amazing thing about Chris Webber's buyout with the Sixers isn't that he will get paid roughly $25 million NOT to play for Philadelphia the next two seasons.
At 17, I was never too pooped to polka. I grew up in the suburbs of Milwaukee, and on Friday nights, a group of friends from high school and I would go to a restaurant outside town called Etzel's.
Two decomposed bodies were found Friday night in a lagoon where searchers have looked for two Milwaukee, Wisconsin, boys who disappeared nearly a month ago, police said.
The decomposed body of a young child was found Friday night floating in a lagoon where searchers have looked for two Milwaukee boys who disappeared nearly a month ago, police said.
Police are asking the public for help in finding two Milwaukee, Wisconsin, boys who disappeared last Sunday.
Thousands of demonstrators marched in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Thursday to oppose tough anti-immigration legislation sponsored by their Republican congressman Jim Sensenbrenner.
Coffee-heart attack link clarified
A single-engine plane trying to land in a thunderstorm nose-dived into utility wires on Milwaukee's east side Saturday night, where it remained entangled for hours while the pilot was rescued, police said.
Someone says, "Wisconsin." What thoughts immediately come to mind? The Green Bay Packers? Dairy products? A TV show? ("Happy Days" for the middle-age crowd; "That '70s Show" for the younger generation).
When I rebalance my mutual fund portfolio, should I just be trying to maintain the proper balance between stock funds and bond funds overall? Or should I also be rebalancing to maintain the balance between different types of stock and bond funds-say, large-cap funds vs. small-cap in stocks and long-term vs. intermediate-term in bonds?
Just before last Christmas, at the height of the tourist season in the Dominican Republic and thus a time of serious beer consumption, a key diesel engine suddenly failed at the big Cerveceria Naci...
When I first rolled into Milwaukee on a winter evening, I had nothing to fuel my wandering but the Laverne & Shirley theme song. Hardly romantic. Yet, in the wanderer's ultimate payoff, I fell in love. Unexpectedly. With Milwaukee.
Do corporate rock & roll bands reflect the inner soul of a company? I would argue yes. Fortunately I had the perfect proving ground to confirm this hypothesis: FORTUNE's second annual Battle of the...
The story almost always begins the same way: Jane and Joe Homeowner need more space. The value of their three-bedroom 1930s Cape has skyrocketed over the past five years, so they figure it's time t...
The story almost always begins the same: Jane and Joe Homeowner need more space. The value of their three-bedroom 1930s Cape has skyrocketed over the past five years, so they figure it's time to trade up.
Sometimes the stickiest business situations occur outside the office. What, for instance, should you do if your boss accidentally takes your roll at dinner? To answer this and other pressing etique...
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Look down. It's almost a cinch that whatever you're wearing on your feet wasn't manufactured in America. Of the 1.3 billion pairs of shoes sold annually in the U.S., fewer than one out of 20 is mad...
Having already dominated malls and highways across the United States, Home Depot will stake its turf in cyberspace this summer when the home improvement behemoth starts selling paints, tools and li...
Go and catch a falling star, get with child a mandrake root, tell me where all past years are or who cleft the devil's foot--and when you've thus proved you can do the impossible, try this: Find th...
In last month's "Lift Your Returns with 15 Top Money Funds" we recommended, among other things, sticking to money-market mutual funds that boast at least $1 billion in assets. Why? To make a low-ri...
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"In Boston," Mark Twain wrote in 1899, "they ask, 'How much does he know?' In New York, 'How much is he worth?' In Philadelphia, 'Who were his parents?'" In Seattle, 100 years later, they ask, "Did...
When Andy Cochran began selling pottery as a high school senior, he really knew his market: college students close to his own age who appreciated the $3 to $5 pots on his pushcart at the University...
No, they didn't pull up the drawbridge or hide in their root cellars. In fact, the good citizens of Milwaukee welcomed the horde of 75,000 invading bikers. And why not? These motorcyclists -- inclu...
Newspapers have been dripping with stories lately about unhealthy tap water: First, in April thousands of Milwaukee residents learned their water supply was contaminated with animal waste. Then in ...
Suppose the CEOs of America's most admired companies received an invitation to a brown-bag lunch at the White House where they'd get to ask the President questions or voice their concerns. FORTUNE ...
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The fully deductible $2,000 IRA that your March Editor's Notes advocates is one way to boost the nation's future growth. Better yet, let's raise the deduction to $4,000 for taxpayers who lack a com...
Your servant has had some moments of deep doubt in preparing this item. For openers, the controversy being covered is one in which he nervously finds himself on the same side of the barricades as t...
As a 21-year-old rookie with the Milwaukee police force a dozen years ago, Lauri Schwefel used to accept male officers' off-color humor and sexual innuendos as part of the job. ''I'd be with a bunc...
Stockbrokers have been making like M.C. Hammer lately. How so? They've been rapping to customers about investments called wrap-fee accounts. The song goes like this: If you have at least $100,000 t...
Question: Should boxing be banned?
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Clear your mind for a moment of all the notions you've ever held about blacks, whites and racial discrimination. Now take a look at these stark statistics: -- A black household with an annual incom...
Americans' growing concern about the environment may at last mean sparkling profits for makers of products used to clean up water supplies. ''Federal and state governments are forcing water utiliti...
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